Nuclear Medicine

The nuclear medicine department at East Lancashire Hospitals Teaching Trust operates two gamma cameras (including one hybrid SPECT/CT gamma camera) and provides specialist radionuclide diagnostic imaging support across a wide variety of different medical specialities including oncology, cardiology, paediatrics, urology and orthopaedics. For example, the ELHT Nuclear Medicine department provide comprehensive radionuclide diagnosis and staging for a wide variety of oncology patients.

Nuclear medicine investigations are commonly used to investigate physiological changes and/or different disease processes. With the addition of hybrid imaging, we can now incorporate CT transmission data within our scans which provides important morphological data on the skeleton and organs which further improves patient management and diagnosis.